WillowTheWhisp

The variations in accents in the UK are quite remarkable at times. I only live a few miles from Pushka but here in Accrington we can spot a Burnley accent a mile away. We tend to sound more like Blackburn people but even then there's a little difference. Just up the road in the Rossendale Valley it's different again. I'm quite pedantic about grammar and punctuation, especially if it can lead to misunderstandings when people get it wrong.

It is not my belief that Satan inhabits any physical world because he and his followers from the pre-existence do not have physical bodies. They are exactly the same spirit bodies as we were in the pre-existence, so if we could see them we would see human forms not something alien. They were our brothers and sisters before they rebelled and were cast out.

I was just about to mention the same thing about the cider and egg nog. Both can be very strongly alcoholic here in the UK. It quite shocks some members when they read articles in 'The Friend' suggesting that small children drink apple cider for refreshment.

Second virgination? That just doesn't make sense. You are either a virgin or not. What is to be gained by having a sexual relationship and then stopping when you decide to get married? When my 2nd husband and I got engaged he moved to the town where I live and rented a house round the corner. Every evening he went home to his house. He came to mine for meals and to watch TV and we went out on dates but after that he went home. I was a widow and he a widower but we maintained standards.

Those non creasable ones are still available in our distribution centre I think. Mine is one of them, an all encompasing tent which fits on the shoulders then just swings out from there. I had to shorten it as I'm only 5'3" but it's brilliant and never creases, is very comfortable too.

The spirit world is all around us. Sometimes some of us can see them. I have seen a deceased friend in the Temple. That was not at all scary. Spirits of those who have never had and never will have bodies are all around us too and I think they may often try to trick us into believing something which is untrue of even dangerous. I believe this is what happens when people 'regress' into what they think is a past life. If they take their own spirit back to a time before birth then that spirit did not inhabit their body and so it gives a disembodied spirit a free body to play with for a while. When they come up with convincing stories about their 'lives' it does not surprise me as those spirits have been around observing us from the very beginning so they have every opportunity to learn about the lives of people who have gone before. Then there's another kind of 'ghostly apparition' where the supposed spirit does not seem to be aware of the people around and in fact seems to be reliving a past experience. A classic example of this is a legion of Roman soldiers in York ho have been seen by many people but do not react to those around, but even more interestingly seem to be walking 2 feet below the present floor level on what would have been the original road in Roman times. I don't believe these are spirits at all but some kind of recording in the place where they were which is somehow played back from time to time. I have seen such an apparition too at a place called Bolton Abbey. It was a medieval knight and maiden who looked as if they were saying farewell to each other in the chapel.

Although I do not believe same sex unions are approved of by God I also don't believe that forcing our standards on others who don't share them is approved of by God either. Here in England we have civil partnerships which are often referred to as gay marriages but they are not legally marriages, yet they do have all the same legalities. They are conducted in places other than churches and of course if the church were to be forced to conduct them then that would be a valid cause for objecting but as it stands I really don't see that we have the right to tell other people how they should live.

It is a bit overwhelming at first. In fact I still find it impossible to keep track of it all because even when I click on 'new' sometimes I lose some of the new posts between one click and the next. I haven't been here for a while so I know I must have missed lots and it moves so quickly that I don't even imagine I could ever catch up! :)

It really doesn't help when us foreigners don't know what was said but are still getting the flak for it. I was always taught that the Church members should not force their political opinions on others but I'm beginning to get the impression that the Church itself has now done precisely that. Yet I must remain in ignorance of exactly what it HAS done.

All I can think of is the Articles of Faith: We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers and magistrates, in obeying, honouring and sustaining the law. That doesn't seem to indicate that there is room for not obeying the law.

Here where I live Christians of all or any denomination get more ridicule from atheists than LDS get from other Christians.

Hoosier I haven't been on here for a while but I have enjoyed your posts in the past and felt so uplifted by your spirit. This evening I have been doing my last minute studyiing of the lesson I'm teaching tomorrow and one point which jumped out at me from the lesson when I read your first post in this thread was how Satan tries to convince us that we are unworthy and tries to separate us from Heavenly Father's love. When we feel really low he gets in there and works on us. Sometimes others around us see a perfectly happy individual who may be falling apart inside.

I love to delve into such intriguing topics as this and to read up differing opinions and gather 'evidence' from different sources. In the end though all we really have are speculative theories, some of which sound more plausible than others. I believe that angels and mankind are one and the same species, this is LDS doctrine, so if we are talking of the sons of God being angels then it isn't interbreeding and creating hybrid species at all. I personally think the giants are separate species and nothing at all to do with the marriage of these sons of God and daughters of men.

I have never heard the term 'criss cross applesauce' - it sounds like total nonsense. I've never heard 'Indian style' either though. We just call it 'cross legged'. I think political correctness causes more problems than it was ever designed to solve. Yes by all means defend people who are being flat out insulted but people are tending to take offence where none was ever intended. We cannot say 'blackboard' in case it offends black people but we can say 'white board'. Whit on earth should an accurate description of a black chalk borad offend anyone of any race or colour? It's crazy.

How very sad. I do not understand how people can be so cruel to each other. I hope that your husband can find peace by using the money for something good and perhaps try to remember that at the end she was trying to become the person she really knew she was inside, and that wasn't the person who was mean enough to leave him just $2,500 and his sister $100,00. How does the sister feel about it? Does it make her feel bad to have received so much more too? I hope it doesn't cause resentment between them. It's hard to let go of something which hurts so much and I hope that you will be able to help your husband to do so. It sounds like his mother was the loser in the end because she denied herself the relationship she could have had with him and with you. Maybe she had started to realise that.

I wonder how those self righteous people feel about the actors who play the role of Satan.........

I don't follow your logic there.

I went through the temple for the first time on the same day as my then fiance. We married nearly 3 months later. Even though he was not yet my husband he was the one who took me through the veil. It was equally new to both of us.

Why should he need to prepare her? Who prepared him? Temple preparation classes? She too can attend temple preparation classes. Our Young Women have been having a lot of lessons about the temple lately so they are not exactly ignorant, and they attend on a monthly basis to do baptisms so it's not a weird and foreign place to them. Only dating for a few weeks? Do people you know really rush into marriage so quickly? They don't here. There is a very good reason why the husband is the one to take his new wife through the temple, but it isn't one I believe we should discuss here.

I wasn't suggesting that a 19 year old girl is less mature than a 19 year old boy but in my experience she is a lot less physically tough. A couple more years of life experience makes up for that. As a 19 year old I wouldn't have wanted to go on a mission. I wouldn't have felt old enough. Privilege? Are you seeing the priesthood as a privilege? I would have called it a responsibility and a heavy one at that. It isn't one I'm going to clamour after and cry "no fair, I want one!" God in his wisdom created us in his image. That means women give birth and men don't. There is no 'unfair' about it. It's just different responsibilities because men and women are different. I don't think it's unfair that I can't have the priesthood and I don't think it's unfair that my husband can't have babies. Do you think it's unfair that you can't see through your nostrils or ear through your eyelids? We have noses for nasal purposes and eyes for visual purposes and ears for auditory purposes. Men for man stuff and women for woman stuff. I'm far too busy being a woman to want to be a man as well.

Perhaps the time of trying your patience will also be a time of you being able to grow stronger and to combat your weaknesses. None of us are perfect. That's why we have repentance. Don't give up and I'm sure you will be rewarded.

I believe the age difference for a woman going on a mission is for her own sake. It's a lot easier for a 19 year old lad to face difficult opposition than it is for a 19 year old girl. Those 2 years give her a bit more experience and maybe by 21 she is a bit tougher. As for having the priesthood. As a woman I'm glad I don't have that responsibility on top of all my other responsibilities. What Hemi said wasn't daft at all. Perhaps you didn't understand him. No matter how much a man wants to be involved in the lives of his children even right from being there at the birth he cannot, no matter how much he may want to, carry that growing developing child within his own body for 9 months and go through the physical pain of bringing that child into the world. Only a woman can do that. A man may be able to mix baby formula and feed the little one from a bottle but only the mother can produce her own natural milk and suckle the child.

One of the things which really impressed me about LDS missionaries before I joined the church was that if I asked them a question they didn't know the answer to they did not fob me off. They were wiling to admit they did not know the answer but then they did try to find someone who did and who would be able to help me. I never came upon the same kind of stone walls I had met elsewhere.

My dream guy has nothing to do with his looks, it's all about character and personality for me.

I would love to read more about these writings.